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It is now completed except lath & plaster and building a chimney to  prevent a continual smoke. They are still $200 in debt the bulk of which is owing to their own people.

They have one of the best and most competent of Teachers, who came here expecting to remain permanently and devote herself to educating the colored people Miss Putnam graduated at Oberlin Ohio, is a life long antislavery woman, a correspondent of the anti-slavery Standard and other journals, has had a very interesting School of 30 day Scholars and a large night School of Adults which promised [[?]] to be increased after the Holidays, owing to the incompleteness of the Building she has been obliged to discontinue her School as it was impossible to keep in any way comfortable.  The people have again contributed generously considering their means, but not sufficient to meet the outlay, and we cannot see how it can be completed and the School go on unless

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---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-01-10 13:21:53 Oberlin was famous for abolitionists of the time.